A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.